American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
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Be not simply good - be good for something.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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What is once well done is done forever.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
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If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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